Many gameplay mechanics have been revamped, which made things like entering zones easier (as in no need to build up SP for Exe drives), that helped the overall flow and pacing, specially when farming. Gameplay loop was also nice, which lead me to enjoy up to 80 hours
Iris/Plutia really carry hard most of the shenanigans with her sadistic nature, it was fun to see everyone react to her sadistic persona. Needless to say that the overall jokes that did not revolve around her were also great, gotta love all those 4th wall breaks and other gaming/anime trope shenanigans.
It was nice to see the evolution through chapters, as in new generations of consoles and the mentions of many issues real life game industry has gone through, such as the infamous playstation network hack and much more.
This game also fixed something previous games were guilty of and it was having such lengthy party members (nep 2 had way too much side characters crammed in for example) it's nice to have these references, unfortunately they were pretty much non existent here, but at least that made up for smaller parties and a far more challenging game (like, not having Compa's heals was quite the difficulty spike, but I've learned to use other party members abilities more and relying on items too)
Cons:
The last few chapters felt too streamlined, like they could have easily been a single chapter, felt kinda rushed at times, although I wonder if that was because I did too much and I was overleveled lmao. Either way there weren't that many zones per area ever since Lowee, while Lastation and Planeptune had way too many areas.
Music overall was still mostly reused, Yellow heart and final dungeon/boss themes were good at least.
Overall 7.5/10: A fun game, way better than Nep 2, well polished and had better mechanics.
Iris/Plutia really carry hard most of the shenanigans with her sadistic nature, it was fun to see everyone react to her sadistic persona. Needless to say that the overall jokes that did not revolve around her were also great, gotta love all those 4th wall breaks and other gaming/anime trope shenanigans.
It was nice to see the evolution through chapters, as in new generations of consoles and the mentions of many issues real life game industry has gone through, such as the infamous playstation network hack and much more.
This game also fixed something previous games were guilty of and it was having such lengthy party members (nep 2 had way too much side characters crammed in for example) it's nice to have these references, unfortunately they were pretty much non existent here, but at least that made up for smaller parties and a far more challenging game (like, not having Compa's heals was quite the difficulty spike, but I've learned to use other party members abilities more and relying on items too)
Cons:
The last few chapters felt too streamlined, like they could have easily been a single chapter, felt kinda rushed at times, although I wonder if that was because I did too much and I was overleveled lmao. Either way there weren't that many zones per area ever since Lowee, while Lastation and Planeptune had way too many areas.
Music overall was still mostly reused, Yellow heart and final dungeon/boss themes were good at least.
Overall 7.5/10: A fun game, way better than Nep 2, well polished and had better mechanics.